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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 654491" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>I'd agree with some of what you say but only in the sense of the really big "so-called" tea party events which IMO are mostly media stunts designed to profit from attention. Case in point was one night last year where there were numerous so-called Tea parties around the country of which Fox News and other media personas got face time and profitted. The wife of the lawyer my wife works for got all dressed up in full blown red, white and blue to attend the big event here but the real reason she was going was so she could see Sean Hannity, live and in living color. In other words, she had the hots for the Baby Jesus. You have to live here to understand that comment.</p><p></p><p>Anyhoo, to me, the whole event was nothing more than a political American Idol performance but that's me. I also understand articles like this <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/14/tax-day-tea-parties-offic_n_186788.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">one</span></a> go a long way to prove your point but there is a flipside that from my POV I find rather positive and hopeful that paints a different picture of some of the tea party movement.</p><p></p><p>American Thinker had an interesting <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/why_leaderless_tea_parties_are.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">article</span></a> last week on the Tea party movement and the GOP and I'll quote:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The very statist conservative types you speak of are not happy at all with the tea party movement because while Sean Hannity was having his own private party on the back of the movement, there were smaller, lesser known gatherings taking place around the country, and still are, where little PR was generated and at these gathering there was a constant tone of rejection of both political parties. In many cases, there are also folks who call themselves "leftist" showing up, not to protest, but to stand with those opposing the warfare/empire state. The cross talk amongst these folks is generating all kinds of common ground and a finding by both of opposition to the corporate state and their roots back to classical liberalism of the 18th and 19th century.</p><p></p><p>This scares not only the GOP but the democrat party too for obvious reasons but if we ever get into regular election cycles where multiple parties are on the ballots and no one ever wins with a clear pure majority, the whole illusion of majority rule (it's an illusion when you factor in the number of people elligible to vote but who actually don't) will become obvious (put "none of the above" on the ballot and it's over) and start to fall on it's face if not to it's death. And I'll be at that funeral with the second line so strike up the band, it's party time!</p><p></p><p>And besides D, anytime you and I have any kind of decent, respectful conversation, it just pisses "Crotch High" off to no end, so thus my real motive for responding.</p><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/wink.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":wink2:" title="Wink :wink2:" data-shortname=":wink2:" /></p><p></p><p>What can I say, I love beating dumb dogs!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 654491, member: 2189"] I'd agree with some of what you say but only in the sense of the really big "so-called" tea party events which IMO are mostly media stunts designed to profit from attention. Case in point was one night last year where there were numerous so-called Tea parties around the country of which Fox News and other media personas got face time and profitted. The wife of the lawyer my wife works for got all dressed up in full blown red, white and blue to attend the big event here but the real reason she was going was so she could see Sean Hannity, live and in living color. In other words, she had the hots for the Baby Jesus. You have to live here to understand that comment. Anyhoo, to me, the whole event was nothing more than a political American Idol performance but that's me. I also understand articles like this [URL='http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/14/tax-day-tea-parties-offic_n_186788.html'][COLOR=red]one[/COLOR][/URL] go a long way to prove your point but there is a flipside that from my POV I find rather positive and hopeful that paints a different picture of some of the tea party movement. American Thinker had an interesting [URL='http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/why_leaderless_tea_parties_are.html'][COLOR=red]article[/COLOR][/URL] last week on the Tea party movement and the GOP and I'll quote: The very statist conservative types you speak of are not happy at all with the tea party movement because while Sean Hannity was having his own private party on the back of the movement, there were smaller, lesser known gatherings taking place around the country, and still are, where little PR was generated and at these gathering there was a constant tone of rejection of both political parties. In many cases, there are also folks who call themselves "leftist" showing up, not to protest, but to stand with those opposing the warfare/empire state. The cross talk amongst these folks is generating all kinds of common ground and a finding by both of opposition to the corporate state and their roots back to classical liberalism of the 18th and 19th century. This scares not only the GOP but the democrat party too for obvious reasons but if we ever get into regular election cycles where multiple parties are on the ballots and no one ever wins with a clear pure majority, the whole illusion of majority rule (it's an illusion when you factor in the number of people elligible to vote but who actually don't) will become obvious (put "none of the above" on the ballot and it's over) and start to fall on it's face if not to it's death. And I'll be at that funeral with the second line so strike up the band, it's party time! And besides D, anytime you and I have any kind of decent, respectful conversation, it just pisses "Crotch High" off to no end, so thus my real motive for responding. :wink2: What can I say, I love beating dumb dogs! [/QUOTE]
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